There are few semi-academic lines more famous than, “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” It is certainly true that statistics give a sheen of legitimacy to claims that often make it easier ...

If you were blessed with the prodigiously creative and cunning mind of a politician, that kind of statistic -- meaningless but technically true -- could be put to good use. In the entertaining 1954 ...

How to Lie with Statistics was a standard college statistics textbook in the 1960s. It became one of the best-selling statistics books in history by showing how to lie, intentionally or ...

If you’ve ever taken a statistics class, you’ve probably read Darrell Huff’s “How to Lie with Statistics.” Teachers unions appear to have drawn some lessons from the 1954 book. They’re using ...

I read the bookHow to Lie With Statistics, a basic but brutally honest and funny read about how to prove almost anything you want to. Here are six things I learned. 1. Mother nature has her own ...

Reader Ben S. emailed last night to point me to a recent piece in Forbes about manufacturing employment. I was intrigued because it’s authored by Chuck DeVore, who just happens to be my former ...

Telling lies with statistics is so easy even a politician can do it. An economist named Darrell Huff once wrote a best-seller about it, “How to Lie With Statistics.” Harry S. Truman identified three ...

“CROOKS already know these tricks. Honest men must learn them in self-defence,” wrote Darrell Huff in 1954 in “How to Lie With Statistics”, a guide to getting figures to say whatever you want them to.

It's easier than you think. I read the book How to Lie With Statistics, a basic but brutally honest and funny read about how to prove almost anything you want to. Here are six things I learned. 1.